Jon Stewart Will Stay at “The Daily Show” Through 2025
Jon Stewart isn’t going anywhere—at least through 2025. Stewart announced Monday that he’ll stay on The Daily Show as the once-a-week host on Mondays and remain an executive producer through December 2025. Stewart announced his return to the show nine months ago just as the presidential election was heating up—Stewart hosted The Daily Show from 1998 ...
“The Daily Show’s” Emmy-Nominated Director David Paul Meyer on Jon Stewart’s Return
Last year’s Emmy winner for Best Talk Series, The Daily Show’s director David Paul Meyer snagged four nods this year, including directing the much-heralded episode, “Jon Stewart Returns to The Daily Show,” when Stewart returned to the show this February to cover this especially tumultuous Presidential election season. Starting his stint at the beginning of ...
Jon Stewart Returning to Host “The Daily Show”
Comedy Central is getting Jon Stewart back. The longtime host of The Daily Show is returning to host on Mondays through the 2024 election, with the rest of the week led by the correspondents. This new approach will begin on February 12, with Stewart returning to the chair that made him a star to kick off each ...
Emmy-Nominated Production Designer Monica Sotto on “Drunk History”
Let’s get the sad part out of the way; Comedy Central’s beloved Drunk History was recently canceled, after 6 glorious, inebriated, compulsively watchable seasons. Shortly before that bad bit of news was revealed, we got a chance to chat with the show’s production designer Monica Sotto, whose work on the season 6 finale “Bad Blood,” ...
Late-Night TV Adapts to a Changed World
As the spread of COVID-19 stalled productions and delayed film premieres, you could make a case that the most visible manifestation of the global pandemic on the entertainment industry was the lack of late-night TV shows. Starting around mid-March, every single one of the late-night programs, from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to Full Frontal ...
Meet The Other Two‘s Secret Weapon—Songwriter Brett McLaughlin
If you haven’t watched Comedy Central’s The Other Two, I’m jealous of you. It is one of this year’s most consistently funny shows, with a joke-per-minute ratio that rivals some of our recent standard bearers, like HBO’s Veep. Go watch it and see for yourself. Created by SNL alums Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, The Other Two centers on a young ...
Watch Trevor Noah’s First 11 Minutes on The Daily Show
"Growing up in the dusty streets of South Africa, I never dreamed that I would one day have, well, two things, really," Trevor Noah began as the new host of The Daily Show. "An indoor toilet and a job as host of The Daily Show. Now I have both, and I'm quite comfortable with one of them." ...
Jordan Peele’s Making a Horror Film Called Get Out—YES!
The Hollywood Reporter broke the story and the rest of the Internet (those who have seen Key & Peele, at least) became very excited about the news: Jordan Peele is going to make a horror film called Get Out. Key & Peele just ended their incredible 5-year run on Comedy Central, and while it's fantastic to see people going out at the very top of their game, ...
Nick Kroll Talks Being Mentored by Mark Duplass for Adult Beginners
Nick Kroll knew that if he wanted a meaty role in a feature film comedy, he needed to develop it himself. Fortunately, Kroll has friends and colleagues who were willing to offer advice on transitioning from TV comic — he stars in his own Kroll Show on Comedy Central and has appeared in the sitcoms ...
Comedy Central’s Growing Roster of Female Showstoppers
If you haven’t watched any of Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central, you should start doing so immediately. Far from coming out of nowhere (Schumer’s been on Comedy Central in several capacities over the years, and finished fourth on NBC's Last Comic Standing), there are still many people in the country who haven’t heard of ...
